Engineering graduate programs rate highly again

For the third year in a row, U.S. News & World Report ranks Cornell's graduate engineering program among the nation's best, with six disciplines rated in the top 10 of all U.S. universities.

Vying for Pi – and pie – on Pi Day

A Pi Day celebration was held beginning at 1:59 p.m. Monday, March 14, in Malott Hall, hosted by the Cornell student chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

New Oneida Lake book sweeps across research panorama

Cornell's Biological Field Station at Shackleton Point has studied all of Oneida Lakes natural dimensions. Now a new book, “Oneida Lake: Long-term Dynamics of a Managed Ecosystem and Its Fishery,” reviews New York's largest interior lake.

Runway role-play becomes a luminous reality

Think “Game of Thrones” meets “Hunger Games.” For the Cornell Fashion Collective (CFC) show on March 12, warriors, rangers and magicians – models draped in LED lights and electroluminescent tape – will role-play on the runway.

Alum wins physics prize named for Cornell Nobelists

Mohammad Hamidian, Ph.D. ’11, has been named the 2016 winner of the Lee-Osheroff-Richardson Prize for his discoveries of new forms of electronic matter at the nanoscale and at extreme low temperatures.

'Function after failure' in bone translates to engineering strategy

A study reveals that the material heterogeneity of cancellous bone prevents cracks from propagating and turning into breaks, and could have implications in engineering as well as medicine.

Randy red-backed fairy-wrens' duets reduce cuckoldry

New research on Australian red-backed fairy-wrens finds that when birds sing with their mates, their partner strays less.

High schoolers beat undergrads, grads at Make-a-thon

Students from majors such as computer science, biology, business, policy analysis and engineering and high school students came together Feb. 20-21 to participate Cornell's first "Make-a-thon."

Quantum dot solids: This generation's silicon wafer?

A Cornell research group led by associate professor Tobias Hanrath has assembled quantum dots into ordered, 2-D superlattice nanocrystals, with potential for breakthroughs in optoelectronics.